Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem with .png files?

[Michael Droettboom]

Bill Dandreta wrote:
> Wayne E. Harlan wrote:
>> I would like to follow up on my first response to Bill.  It probably 
>> should be a new thread, but I'll start here.  When png files are saved 
>> with a DPI=300 argument, and I open them in the Gimp, the dpi is only 72 
>> (default ?).  As I understand it, the dpi setting in the graphics file 
>> tells the application opening it how big to display it.  When I use 
>> savefig with a DPI=300 and the plot figure I am saving was created with 
>> figsize=(6,4.5) I expect the figure to open in word or swriter at the 
>> size I specified (6" by 4.5") with the appropriate number of pixels.  
>> However, at present, that does not happen.  The number of pixels in the 
>> figure is correct but I have to resize it manually to get the right 
>> size.  Can this be fixed ?
> This info may or may not be useful. If I save a plot with savefig()
> without specifying a figsize, sometimes the figure gets clipped. What
> gets saved is the portion of the image that show() displays. I
> determined experimentally that figsize=(13,10) causes show() to open the
> image at full screen size and so far using that size saves an unclipped
> image.

Is this with 0.90.1 or a SVN version?  What backend are you using?

Cheers,
Mike


-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

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